Manually Partitioning at Install

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There is no problem. Actually Endless OS is fantastic.
I did, however, wonder how I could manually partition a hard drive so that I can install it on my SSD drive but to have a /home partition on a separate SATA hard drive? Does anybody know how?

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@boysha

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@boysha
https://support.endlessm.com/hc/en-us/articles/212053683-How-do-I-create-a-USB-stick-from-an-image-file-I-have-already-downloaded-

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Not sure if this is a reply to my post or what it is but it is not addressing my concern.

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This isn’t officially supported at the moment. If you wanted to set this up yourself, you could probably do the following, though I have not tested this at all!:

  1. Install Endless OS to your SSD
  2. Boot Endless OS
  3. In the Disks app, create an ext4 partition on your other drive
  4. Mount it somewhere
  5. Copy the contents of /home to it, preserving all attributes
  6. Edit /etc/fstab to mount that ext4 partition on /sysroot/home

(Note that /home is a symlink to /var/home which is in turn a symlink to /sysroot/home. It’s probably best to mount your drive on the real path.)

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